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IRRIGATION. THE ELEVATED PUMP. 
insisted that that system, faulty as it was in 
several respects, is, nevertheless, a good founda- 
tion, whence the most interesting scenery may 
accrue in the course of years. 
v In the course of Mr. Repton's practice, he 
saw the bold and naked appearance of many 
parks, in consequence of their want of under- 
growths. To remedy this, he directed haw- 
thorn and holly bushes to be profusely planted 
at the base of single trees, round the margins 
of groups, or to mask any object offensive to 
the eye. He also had often to alter awk- 
ward and unnecessary bends of roads and 
walks ; and moreover, suggested many im- 
provements of the buildings and prospects 
belonging to the places where he was em- 
ployed. 
At many of the places he visited profession- 
ally, he had to complain of the rude opposition 
he met w T ith from the gardeners, and ignorant 
interfering friends of the proprietor, who 
seemed to take pleasure in checking, and 
throwing cold water on everything he pro- 
posed. Such a complaint said very little for the 
civility of the servants, or for the power and 
influence of the master in those days. Happily, 
such rude opposition and want of courtesy is 
not likely to be shown by the present race of 
gardeners, who are now as well acquainted 
with the rules of civility, as they are with the 
rules of their art. 
Since the death of Mr. Repton, there has 
not much been done in the business of land- 
scape gardening ; nor has any great change 
taken place in public opinion concerning its 
principles. A son of Mr. Repton followed 
the profession; and two or three other persons 
offered their services as landscape gardeners, 
and who have been variously, though not 
constantly employed. Jas. Main. 
IRRIGATION. — THE ELEVATED PUMP. 
Theke is hardly any operation in a garden 
more costly than watering, and less seems to 
have been done towards lessening this expense 
by a proper outlay at first, than has been done 
in respect to any other important department. 
It is no uncommon thing to see a dozen men 
carrying water about on barrows, from place 
to place, consuming infinitely more time in 
wheeling it to the quarter it is wanted, than 
they do in using it when there ; and the wages 
of the extra hands required for this exceed 
belief. Well-conducted gardens have indeed 
wells at different parts of the ground, but 
even here the water has to be lifted or pumped. 
The remedy for the evil can only be found in 
tanks placed at such distances as shall render 
them handy, and then contrive some means of 
filling them. The principal object to attend 
to, is to place one of these tanks on the highest 
part of the ground ; this is the only one that 
need be filled, because by means of an open 
gutter from that to all the others, such gutter 
being within two or three inches of the top, 
so that when full up to that, the water would 
run away to the next, and so on from one to 
another, all may be filled from the first. 
The best way to fill the highest tank is the 
next consideration. If there be a well near 
it there is but little difficulty ; and the advan- 
tage is, that a man can be kept at work there 
to pump until all are filled. The water by 
these means is carried from one end of a large 
concern to the other, and the irrigation is 
comparatively the work of a few minutes. 
The water is dipped from the tanks in a mo- 
ment, and distributed among the plants in an 
incredibly short time. But if the water happen 
to be, as it often, indeed most often, is, at the 
lowest part of the ground, there must be a 
little contrivance to convey it to the highest. 
The means are various : there is no difficulty 
in pumping water from a well thirty feet deep; 
and whether a pump be used thirty feet above 
the level ground, or being on the ground, it 
is thirty feet above the water, the labour is 
the same. Presuming there is a good supply 
from a river or pond at the lower end of the 
ground, half a mile off, it is only necessary to 
build a stage so high, that' the pump may be 
even with the tank which is on the highest 
part of the ground; and this pump may be 
made the means of filling the tank without 
any more labour than if the pump were close 
to it. The only necessary apparatus is a tub 
